Angus Deaton Quotes

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

Angus Deaton

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Perfect
  • Him

• You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.

  

  Ice T
  • You
  • Professional
  • Rap

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted

• I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Things
  • Very
  • Involved

• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Business
  • Think

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• I think Michelle Obama is on the right track with her Let's Move campaign to bring down childhood obesity. She and I come from the same state, Illinois, which is number four in the nation for obese children. One out of five Illinois children are considered obese. Not overweight, obese. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Children
  • She
  • Childhood

• Accord, n. Harmony.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Good

• I know the importance of family. I mean, it really completes me as a person. I want lots of children; I want so many children. I look at babies' pictures, and I am like... I love kids.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Children
  • Family
  • Kids

• 'Amores Perros' and 'Once Were Warriors' had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.

  

  Brendan Fletcher
  • Quality

• As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Worry

• All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.

  

  Christo
  • Unique

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• I'm not a liar.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Liar

• But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

  

  David Kay
  • Important
  • Taken

• I just love chickens.

  

  Patti LuPone

• The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Life
  • Dream

• It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Unique

• I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

  

  Angus Deaton